Over the past 4 decades there has been a growing concern for the conservation status of
elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). In 2002, the first elasmobranch species were added to …

Species diversity assessments are an important step to evaluate the conservation status of a
community, both in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. These assessments are pivotal if …

Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-specific habitat associations in response
to geographic and environmental drivers is critical to assessing risk of exposure to fishing …

Aim To determine whether the method used to build distributional maps from raw data
influences the representation of two principal macroecological patterns: the latitudinal …

Being one of the most productive China seas, the East China Sea is facing the challenge of
unprecedented biodiversity loss and habitat degradation under the dual pressure of …

Aim Concurrently, assessing the effectiveness of marine protected areas and evaluating the
degree of risk from humans to key species provide valuable information that can be …

Aim To examine the pattern and cumulative curve of descriptions of freshwater fishes world‐
wide, the geographical biases in the available information on that fauna, the relationship …

Given the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss, the need to prioritize marine areas for
protection represents a major conservation challenge. The three‐dimensionality of marine …

Although fish fauna in the Arabian/Persian Gulf have been studied for decades, shark
diversity has only been recently investigated in the region. Here, we present a first …

Data quality is one of the highest priorities for species distribution data warehouses, as well
as one of the main concerns of data users. There is the need, however, for computational …